Cadillac ATS: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Cadillac ATS, model years 2013 to 2019. NHTSA has 380 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 7 model years have a page on this register.
Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .
Model years
The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Cadillac ATS NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 4% | |
| 2018 Cadillac ATS | 2 | 21 | 39% | 1,829 |
| 2017 Cadillac ATS | 2 | 32 | 59% | 27,706 |
| 2016 Cadillac ATS | 3 | 32 | 59% | 164,824 |
| 2015 Cadillac ATS | 4 | 29 | 53% | 166,987 |
| 2014 Cadillac ATS | 4 | 104 | 192% | 374,567 |
| 2013 Cadillac ATS | 6 | 160 | 295% | 432,891 |
The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.
Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.
Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.
Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.
Components in the complaints
557 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Power Train | 183.1 | 102 |
| Electrical System | 136.4 | 76 |
| Engine | 127.5 | 71 |
| Steering | 109.5 | 61 |
| Unknown or Other | 96.9 | 54 |
| Air Bags | 52.1 | 29 |
| Service Brakes | 41.3 | 23 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 28.7 | 16 |
| Exterior Lighting | 28.7 | 16 |
| Wheels | 26.9 | 15 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- SRX24 campaigns
- Deville30 campaigns
- CTS27 campaigns
- Escalade52 campaigns
- Seville31 campaigns
- Escalade ESV42 campaigns
- DTS6 campaigns
- Eldorado28 campaigns
- Catera0 campaigns
- STS7 campaigns
- XT515 campaigns
- XTS10 campaigns
- Allante2 campaigns
- Fleetwood20 campaigns
- Lyriq11 campaigns
- CT56 campaigns
- XT48 campaigns
- XT612 campaigns
- Escalade EXT16 campaigns
- Cadillac8 campaigns
- XLR4 campaigns
- CT68 campaigns
- Brougham18 campaigns
- CT45 campaigns
- Redundant Lyriq2 campaigns
- Vistiq4 campaigns
- ELR2 campaigns
- Optiq3 campaigns
- Escalade NA4 campaigns
- Cimarron8 campaigns
- CT6 Plug-In Hybrid2 campaigns
- Escalade IQ2 campaigns
- Limousine7 campaigns
- Escalade IQL2 campaigns
- Hearse3 campaigns
- Calais3 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Cadillac ATS: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/ats/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .
Sources
- Source
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
- Licence
- US government work, public domain
- Recall file through
- 30 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 30 Sep 2026
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- General Motors LLC
The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- Which Cadillac ATS model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2013 with 6, 2015 with 4, 2014 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Cadillac ATS model year has the most complaints?
- The 2013 model year, with 160 of the 380 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Cadillac ATS name?
- Power Train: 183.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 136.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 127.5 per 1,000 component mentions.